CVE-2011-1595
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (66th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1595)
- Published
- May 24, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1595 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
- rdesktop / rdesktop
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html
- http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44881
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51023
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252(Exploit, Patch)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0506.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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